Anthony Davis may have finally torn the heart out of the Denver Nuggets, drilling a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer on Sunday to give his Los Angeles Lakers a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.
Nuggets center Nikola Jokic scored his team’s final 12 points, capped by a baby hook that gave Denver a one-point lead with 20.8 seconds remaining. But a wild final possession that saw three game-winning attempts from the Lakers ended with a clutch Davis triple and a 105-103 win that felt like a death blow.
The Nuggets played with the same desperation that served them in a pair of 3-1 series comebacks against the Utah Jazz and L.